This is the first attempt to provide comprehensive, annotated lists of the Ecumenical Patriarchs and the Metropolitans and Archbishops under the jurisdication of Constantinople for an English-language audience.

This is Sir Steven Runciman's established and widely admired classic account of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, first published in 1968. The Great Church, as the Greeks called the Orthodox Patriarchate, was the spiritual centre of the Byzantine world. The Church's survival during the four centuries of Turkish rule which followed the f...

The first-ever detailed presentation of historic and sacred Armenian textiles found in treasury of the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul. Text accompanied by 175 color photographs (many full-spread) of the selection of artifacts, exquisite pieces dating from the past three hundred years that were executed by women artisans in embroidery, applique t...

Although the above title may seem dramatic, it refers to the following dramatic article, ‘First Without Equals’, placed on the official site of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (http://www. Patriarchate.

Paul
Goble
Staunton, January 1 – A Kremlinological
reading of recent moves by the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox
Church suggests that Moscow hopes somehow to engineer the replacement of the
head of its branch of Orthodoxy in Ukraine, a step intended to bring the
Ukrainians to heel but an attempt likely to further alienate it from Moscow.
On December 25, the Holy Synod of
the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate held a meeting at which
it discussed “events in Ukraine and adopted special declaration about them as
well as replaced the longtime head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belarus (patriarchia.

Of course he was referring to "radical Islam". Easily distinguishable by the Radical Koran. via Moscow Patriarchate: Russia must do more to combat radical Islam Amid recent terrorist attacks in Volgograd, a city of one million in southern Russia, a leading Russian Orthodox Church official has called upon the nation to do more to combat…

Tweet December 2013 On Wednesday the 12th/25th of December 2013, the feast of St Spyridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Trimythous, was celebrated by the Patriarchate in the Monastery which bears his name and lies on the inside of the wall

Professor Arjakovsky puts a great deal in perspective vis-à-vis the Russian Patriarchate, especially in light of current developments. A must read for Ukrainians, and anyone else interested in Orthodox/Catholic ecclesiology and politics, his article can be read by clicking here.

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America announces to all the Orthodox faithful in America the decision of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Nov. 27, 2013. The Holy and Sacred Synod, in which His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America participated, entered in the registry of the Saints of the Orthodox Church... This award-winning site features information on the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, news and events, His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, the Orthodox Christian faith, and more.